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Inspirational and devotional articles to encourage your readers in their faith.
- At the flick of a switch or a press of a button we can illuminate our homes with all kinds of gadgets. City life has street lights everywhere and if we need a light for dark places we can use a torch. Life for people in Bible days must have been so different. The darkness...Shine, Jesus, shine
- Wise Men Still Seek Him From the Vicar That They Be One 2019: Is it even possible to make a new start? What a legacy! His grace really is sufficient Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord Ten things God won’t ask you when you die ** Editor: The Rev Paul Hardingham considers...Looking at God (all articles) in January 2019
- ‘A cold coming we had of it. Just the worst time of the year. For a journey and such a long journey.’ (‘Journey of the Magi’, T.S. Eliot). In this poem, T.S. Eliot imagines the journey of the Magi to worship Jesus, as told in Matthew 2. This story is at the heart of our...Wise Men Still Seek Him
- ‘A cold coming we had of it. Just the worst time of the year. For a journey and such a long journey.’ (Journey of the Magi, T.S. Eliot). In this poem, T.S. Eliot imagines the journey of the Magi to worship Jesus, as told in Matthew 2. This story is at the heart of our...From the Vicar
- ‘My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent...‘That They Be One’ – a Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
- The Christian faith teaches that a new start is endlessly possible. It is provided by a personal encounter with the risen and living Jesus Christ. He offers us the opportunity and the resources to make a new start, despite all our circumstances or failings. The Bible records many encouraging examples of people who were able...2019: Is it even possible to make a New Start?
- The charity Oxfam recently received a legacy of £41 million following the death of business man Richard Cousins. Richard was killed in a plane crash in Sydney Harbour on New Year’s Eve 2017, and he died alongside his two sons, his fiancée and her daughter, and the pilot. A year before the tragic accident Richard,...What a legacy!
- ‘To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power...His grace really is sufficient
- During the coming New Year, let these words from Psalm 33:12 form the basis for your daily personal prayers for your country… and indeed for the political leadership in the wake of all that has been taking place in the closing weeks of the past year. Let the prayers expand further still – to take...Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord
- God won’t ask what kind of car you drove; He’ll ask how many people you drove who didn’t have transportation. God won’t ask the square footage of your house, He’ll ask how many people you welcomed into your home. God won’t ask about the clothes you had in your closet, He’ll ask how many people...Ten things God won’t ask you when you die
- God’s Special Gift From the Vicar God with us Emmanuel means ‘God with us’ An On-Going Story The hour-glass of Christmas ** Editor: The Rev Paul Hardingham considers the unthinkable God’s Special Gift For those of us about to spend Christmas with a new child or grandchild, we will know how very special the arrival...Looking at God (all articles) for December 2018
- For those of us about to spend Christmas with a new child or grandchild, we will know how very special the arrival of a baby is! This Christmas we celebrate again God’s gift of Jesus: ‘Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!’ (2 Corinthians 9:15). What can we say about this baby? He is...God’s Special Gift